Aptostichus Explained
Aptostichus is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1891.[1] They are found predominantly in southern California, United States.[2]
Behavior
Members of the North American genus, Aptostichus, assemble tunnels with side chambers, but they do not close these chambers with additional trapdoors.[3]
Species
it contains forty-one species in the United States and Mexico:[4]
- Aptostichus aguacaliente Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus angelinajolieae Bond, 2008 – USA
- Aptostichus anzaborrego Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus asmodaeus Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus atomarius Simon, 1891 (type) – USA
- Aptostichus barackobamai Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus bonoi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus cabrillo Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico
- Aptostichus cahuilla Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus cajalco Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus chavezi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus chemehuevi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus chiricahua Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus dantrippi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus derhamgiulianii Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus dorothealangeae Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus edwardabbeyi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus elisabethae Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus fisheri Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus fornax Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus hedinorum Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus hesperus (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA
- Aptostichus huntington Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus icenoglei Bond, 2012 – USA, Mexico
- Aptostichus isabella Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus killerdana Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus lucerne Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus mikeradtkei Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus miwok Bond, 2008 – USA
- Aptostichus muiri Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus nateevansi Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus pennjillettei Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus sabinae Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2016 – Mexico
- Aptostichus sarlacc Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus satleri Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus serrano Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus sierra Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus simus Chamberlin, 1917 – USA, Mexico
- Aptostichus sinnombre Bond, 2012 – USA
- Aptostichus stanfordianus Smith, 1908 – USA
- Aptostichus stephencolberti Bond, 2008 – USA
See also
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1891. Liste des espéces de la famille des Aviculariidae qui habitent le Mexique et l'Amérique du Nord.. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 307–326. 44.
- Bond. Jason E.. Amy K.. Stockman. 2008. An Integrative Method for Delimiting Cohesion Species: Finding the Population-Species Interface in a Group of Californian Trapdoor Spiders with Extreme Genetic Divergence and Geographic Structuring. Systematic Biology. 57. 4. 628–646. 10.1080/10635150802302443. 18686196. free.
- Bond. Jason E.. etal. 2007. A Taxonomic Review of the Trapdoor Spider Genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae). American Museum Novitates. 3596. 1–30. 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3596[1:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2. free.
- Gen. Aptostichus Simon, 1891. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-03. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
